Question: One of the reasons astrology is not considered a science is that:
Answer Options:
a. The rules for casting horoscopes are self-contradictory.
b. It is not taught in reputable colleges and universities.
c. Calculating the interactions of planetary influences is too complicated.
d. It shows no progress over many centuries of practice.
e. It has been superseded by astronomy and cosmology.
Answer: b. It is not taught in reputable colleges and universities.
Question: According to Thomas Kuhn, one feature that distinguishes scientists from pseudo scientists is that scientists are:
Answer Options:
a. Workaholics.
b. Equipped with laboratory facilities.
c. Puzzle solvers.
d. Theorizers.
e. Practitioners.
Answer: c. Puzzle solvers.
Question: A cure that supposedly arises from a “medicine” or procedure having no therapeutic benefit is said to result from:
Answer Options:
a. The autokinetic effect.
b. The medicinal effect.
c. The placebo effect.
d. The transmutational effect.
e. The synthetic effect.
Answer: c. The placebo effect.
Question: The experiment performed by psychologists Singer and Benassi involving a conjurer who performed before a group of students tends to show that:
Answer Options:
a. A conjurer’s tricks can be exposed by keen observers.
b. People see what they have been conditioned to see.
c. Psychokinesis is possible given the right conditions.
d. Many people are disposed to magical ways of thinking.
e. Clairvoyance is not a reliable way of solving crimes.
Answer: d. Many people are disposed to magical ways of thinking.
Question: What is opportunity cost?
Answer Options:
a. The value of what you are giving up when you select one of two projects.
b. The measure of time in which total cash received is equal to, or exceeds, total costs.
c. The discount amount when present value of cash intake equals the original investment.
d. The concept that a dollar today is worth a dollar, but a dollar in a year will be worth less than a dollar.
Answer: a. The value of what you are giving up when you select one of two projects.
Question: Which activity is accomplished as part of the initiating process of a project?
Answer Options:
a. Performing a lessons learned review
b. Defining the project scope
c. Developing the project budget
d. Selecting the project
Answer: d. Selecting the project
Question: One of the reasons for the existence of superstitious beliefs is that:
Answer Options:
a. They help relieve anxiety.
b. They are a reliable substitute for scientific conclusions.
c. They explain various kinds of delusions and hallucinations.
d. They are more satisfying to religious people than science.
e. They are useful in explaining the content of dreams.
Answer: a. They help relieve anxiety.
Question: In regard to levitation, Maharishi International University’s International Center for Scientific Research has done which of the following?
Answer Options:
a. Published papers in scientific journals.
b. Compiled a list of meditators who can levitate.
c. Conducted experiments.
d. Nothing to speak of.
e. Read papers before scientific bodies.
Answer: d. Nothing to speak of.
Question: An example of the autokinetic effect is:
Answer Options:
a. The image of rapidly moving objects in the content of dreams.
b. Seeing unknown entities move about in a dark closet.
c. The perceived movement of a human body after death.
d. The sensation of involuntary bodily movements while falling asleep.
e. The apparent movement of a small stationary light in a dark room.
Answer: e. The apparent movement of a small stationary light in a dark room.
Question: The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi claimed that some practitioners of transcendental meditation were able to:
Answer Options:
a. Read other peoples’ minds.
b. Levitate.
c. Bend spoons and other objects by merely stroking them.
d. Find sources of water by using a diving rod.
e. Practice “cold reading.”
Answer: b. Levitate.
Question: The claim that eating pickled parsley cured Mr. Smith’s congestive heart failure is called:
Answer Options:
a. Supplementary evidence.
b. Transitory evidence.
c. Spurious evidence.
d. Conditional evidence.
e. Anecdotal evidence.
Answer: e. Anecdotal evidence.
Question: An apparent benefit derived from superstitious beliefs is:
Answer Options:
a. The ability to levitate.
b. Psychokinesis.
c. The ability to channel.
d. Clairvoyance.
Answer: d. Clairvoyance.
Question: The effect by which a small stationary light surrounded by darkness will be seen to move is called the:
Answer Options:
a. Psychokinetic effect.
b. Spuriokinetic effect.
c. Psychotic effect.
d. Kinesthetic effect.
e. Autokinetic effect.
Answer: e. Autokinetic effect.
Question: The mental pattern that results from solving a puzzle or riddle is called:
Answer Options:
a. A gestalt.
b. An epistemic stamp.
c. A cognitive appliqué.
d. An eidetic residue.
e. A noetic profile.
Answer: a. A gestalt.
Question: When astrological predictions fail to materialize, the community of astrologers typically responds by:
Answer Options:
a. Ignoring them.
b. Reexamining the positions of the planets at the pertinent times.
c. Recasting the astrological charts.
d. Rereading ancient astrological texts.
e. Resetting the astrological clocks.
Answer: a. Ignoring them.
Question: A leader has begun the evaluation and prioritization of three projects.
Which characteristic is being used as the criterion to select a model?
Answer Options:
a. Easy to use
b. Low cost
c. Realistic
d. Comparable
Answer: d. Comparable